#193 – Nautilus Shell
By: CWR
Tags: ballet, beautiful, chambered nautilus, chambered nautilus shell, nautilus, nautilus shell, not really ballet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, poem, poetry, renaissance, shell, tshirt
Category: Uncategorized
| Aperture: | f/6.3 |
|---|---|
| Focal Length: | 55mm |
| ISO: | 400 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT |
… seemingly moved to do some light ballet in the garden …
This shirt is a simple, white v-neck t-shirt, which happens to have a cut-away nautilus shell on it. It’s nice to have around, when you want to contemplate the infinite. Did you know: In The Renaissance, nautilus shells were cleaned, decorated, mounted and made into extremely elegant cups. These are just beautiful!
~~~
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
by: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
HIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main, —
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed, —
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: —
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!
~~~
The nautilus is truly fascinating. Cephalopods: creepy, amazing, and wonderful.
Tshirt Avalanche - Digging Our Way Out 
[…] golden ratio, is pretty awesome. It can be seen in places like The Acropolis, in Greece. And on tshirts of nautilus shells. And around pretty girls at the beach (nearly). And, sometimes, in the […]